The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project
The Interpreter
Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries
Remember September 11, 2001
arv@colorado.edu
Number 214
Our Mission
In the Spring of 2000, the
Archives continued the original efforts of Captain Roger
Pineau and William Hudson,
and the Archives first attempts in 1992, to gather the
papers, letters, photographs,
and records of graduates of
the US Navy Japanese/
Oriental Language School,
University of Colorado at
Boulder, 1942-1946. We
assemble these papers in
recognition of the contributions made by JLS/OLS
instructors and graduates to
the War effort in the Pacific
and the Cold War, to the
creation of East Asian
language programs across
the country, and to the
development of JapaneseAmerican
cultural
reconciliation programs after
World War II.
At the 48 General
Hospital, Saipan
th
A couple of asides, Dave, that
you might enjoy, both related to
my hospitalization in the Army’s
48th General Hospital on Saipan:
When I was checked into the
tent ward, it was natural for me
to comment to the nurse on duty
there that my sister Peg was an
Army nurse. She asked me what
unit, and I told her the 39th
General
Hospital.
She
exclaimed “they’re here”. I said
no, that the 39th was in New
Zealand, adding that only two
weeks ago I had received a “Vmail” from her, from New
Zealand. The nurse insisted that
was old news, got on the field
telephone, connected to the 39th
which was not far off, and within
an hour Peg came to see me.
Another
incident
that
happened at the 48th was a
massive food poisoning. When
my condition had improved
substantially, Peg came early one
afternoon to take me out for a
jeep ride, but not long after we
departed the field hospital, I had
to ask her to stop the jeep so that
I could get out to vomit. I felt
very poorly and she took me
right back to the tent ward.
Upon entering, the nurse there
exclaimed, “Not you, too!”
Everyone was getting sick.
Trucks were going around the
hospital compound picking up
people who could no longer
walk. Doctors and nurses had to
abandon surgeries in the middle
of them, and Peg and others who
had not eaten at the 48th were
pressed into action. The problem
stemmed from contaminated rice
pudding.
With IVs for
hydration, everyone got over the
problem in a couple of days, but
it was chaos for a while! Right
out of MASH!!
Dick Moss
JLS 1943
[Ed. Note: Reminiscent of the Ham
Rolph and Phil Burchill story about
how they skipped a meal at JLS to
see a movie, For Whom the Bell
Tolls, at the Boulder Theater, and
everyone else came down with
food poisoning. Having myself
dined in mess halls, from
marmites, and on C Rations;
military
chow
and
food
poisoning sometimes seemed
synonymous. At least that
instance happened where he
could get immediate help.]
________________
“Polly” Fleming
Remembered
The enclosed vita of Polly,
widow of Rudd Fleming, JLS
1944, reflects her remarkable
life. She was a dear friend, and
on our annual visits to DC
always included time with her.
She saw a lot of the large colony
of JLS alums in the DC area. She
was indeed lucid to 108. I hope
you can include part of this in
The Interpreter.
Frank Tucker
JLS 1944
*****
Mary “Polly” Fleming
BLOOMINGTON — Mary
“Polly” Duke Wight Fleming,
108, Chevy Chase, Md.,
formerly of Bloomington, passed
away at noon on Thanksgiving
Day, Thursday (Nov., 28, 2013)
at Manor Care Nursing Home,
Wheaton, Md.
Polly was born Dec. 3, 1904,
in Bloomington, a daughter of
John and Grace Cheney Fletcher
Wight. She married Rudd
Fleming on Dec. 27, 1932. He
preceded her in death on Oct. 22,
1991.
In lieu of flowers, memorials
may be made to Illinois
Wesleyan University Drama
Department.
Kibler-BradyRuestman Memorial Home,
Bloomington, is assisting the
family with arrangements.
She is survived by two sons,
Jonathon (Cris) Wight Fleming,
Chevy Chase, Md., and William
(Catherine)
Rudd
Fleming,
Bloomington; two daughters,
Mary (Robert) Cheney Sheh,
Palos Verdes, Calif., and Joan
Sample
DeVrieze,
Seattle,
Wash.; 15 grandchildren; and 32
great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband,
Rudd, Polly was preceded in
death by her parents and son-inlaw, Theo DeVreize.
She was descended from
early settlers of McLean County
and raised in Bloomington. She
attended Miss Hall’s School in
Massachusetts and graduated
with a degree in French literature
from Smith College in the Class
of 1927. She received a doctorate
in French literature at Bryn
Mawr College and Brown
University. From 1928 to 1952,
Polly taught in the French
departments at University of
December 1, 2015
Illinois,
Brown
University,
University of Maryland and the
Institute of Contemporary Arts in
Washington, D.C. Her husband,
Rudd, was a popular professor in
the
English
department,
University of Maryland.
She loved the theater and was
a member of Theatre Lobby. She
was active in the Tricoleur
Theatre Club and for many years
produced an annual Christmas
play at the Metropolitan A.M.E.
Church in D.C. She was a
member of The Women’s Club
of Chevy Chase and the
Washington Bridge League, and
the History and Art Club of
Bloomington. Swimming was an
integral part of her exercise
program and she remained
vigorous and alert until she
broke her hip at the age of 107.
The family spent many
summers
in
Bloomington,
visiting Polly and Rudd’s parents
and later their son, William, who
practiced
medicine
in
Bloomington.
http://www.pantagraph.com/new
s/local/obituaries/mary-pollyfleming/article_f1d69222-5bb011e3-95b8-0019bb2963f4.html
December 03, 2013 12:00 am
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Arthur Watres,
founder of
Lacawac,1922-2014
Contributed Louis Arthur Watres,
founder of Lacawac Sanctuary
The founder of Lacawac
Sanctuary, known around the
world
by
the
scientific
community for its virtually
pristine glacial lake, is dead.
Louis Arthur Watres died
January 10, 2014 at the age of
91.
He had a heart for the
environment and early on
recognized the value of the
property his family owned on the
west
shore
of
Lake
Wallenpaupack near Ledgedale.
Surrounded
by
private
communities and close by to the
recreational pursuits on the lake
was this area of woodlands with
its rare lake of high quality
water. In 1966 he and his mother
Isabel founded the Lacawac
Sanctuary and dedicated it to the
cause
of
preservation,
environmental education and
scientific research. Today it
covers 545 acres.
"He
was
truly
an
environmental visionary and all
those familiar with his engaging
personality, his environmental
work and Lacawac will surely
miss him," commented Steve
Lawrence, chairman of the
Board of Trustees at Lacawac.
Watres'
legacy
became
recognized worldwide. The
property,
with
its
1903
Adirondack-style lodge is on the
National Register of Historic
Places and is a National Natural
Landmark. It is a field research
station where cutting edge
science is performed on climate
change and water quality.
Lawrence noted that Watres'
legacy is continuing to be felt.
The Sanctuary has become part
of a consortium with member
universities, namely Drexel and
Miami (Ohio), as well as the
Academy of Natural Sciences.
Watres was present this past fall
(Oct. 25) to turn the first shovel
full of earth in a ceremony
heralding a modern laboratory
funded by the National Science
Foundation.
This laboratory promises to
help showcase the environmental
cause of Lacawac to local school
students and the general public,
as well as attract scientists from
around the globe. A research hub
is being created at Lacawac for
the Ecological Observatory
Network, linking data gained at
Lacawac with field stations
around the planet.
"This basic concept is
something that Arthur embraced
years ago.”
Watres' legacy is also well
known to the public for its hiking
trails,
nature
and
music
programs. A solid base of
volunteers serve at the non-profit
Lacawac Sanctuary from the
community.
He was one to promote
Lacawac in any way he could
and would embrace visitors like
old friends, showing them
around and telling the story of
Lacawac's
history
and
significance.
His son, Chad Reed-Watres,
was born in 1966, the year
Arthur and Arthur's mother
started Lacawac Sanctuary. Now
living in Australia, Chad is on
the board at Lacawac. He related
that his father had a degree from
Yale in fine arts but had a keen
interest in science.
Reading books on ecology in
the 1950s, he had a growing
sense that Lake Lacawac was a
special place worth protection
and study. He went to New York
pursuing scientists in the field to
come and take a look. With
interest raised, in 1966 he first
turned over 400 acres to the
Nature Conservancy for a
research station, having helped
found the local chapter. Later,
the site was transferred to an
independent
nonprofit
organization that had been
formed, by the name of Lacawac
Sanctuary.
By Peter Becker
Managing Editor
Wayne Intependent
Jan. 13, 2014
[Ed. Note: a second, different
obituary for this JLS/ OLSer].
________________
Vernon Roger Alden
A Biography
Vernon R. Alden, PresidentEmeritus of Ohio University,
also served as Chairman of the
Boston Company and Associate
Dean of the Harvard Business
School. He is a leader in
education, business, the arts and
international activities.
From 1969 through 1978 he
was Chairman of the Boston
Company
and
its
major
subsidiary, the Boston Safe
Deposit and Trust Company. He
helped transform an essentially
local financial company into a
national
and
international
organization and attracted to its
Board of Directors such wellknown executives as Lee
Iacocca, then president of Ford,
as well as heads of Continental
Oil, Trans World Airlines,
Armco Steel, and Royal Dutch
Shell.
Investment
management
entities were acquired in five
other regions as well as the
Personnel Resources Division
which
made
the
Boston
Company the first major
financial organizations to fulfill a
need for professional athletes
and entertainers. He also helped
to
establish
The
Boston
Consulting Group and attracted a
friend, Bruce Henderson, as its
founder.
He is a Life Trustee of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, the
Boston Museum of Science, the
Children’s Museum, and the
French Library and Cultural
Center in Boston. He has served
on visiting committees at
Harvard, MIT, the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy,
and the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts.
Three
Massachusetts
Governors, Sargent, Dukakis and
King, appointed him Chairman
of the Massachusetts Council on
Arts and Humanities. During his
twelve-year
tenure,
State
appropriations to the arts grew
from $125,000 to over $18
million. Alden also served as
Chairman of the Foreign
Business Council under Dukakis
and King. He served as a trustee
and member of the Board of
Fellows of Brown University, his
alma mater.
Alden was president of Ohio
University in the decade of the
1960’s. During his tenure
enrollment more than doubled
and total assets more than
quadrupled.
One
of
the
hallmarks of his administration
was the ability to attract and
develop
outstanding
administrative talent. Seven
members of his administration
went on to become presidents of
other colleges and universities.
Upon his retirement from Ohio
the Trustees named the new
library. “The Vernon Roger
Alden Library” and he received
the Governor’s Award, a
Citation from the State of Ohio
Senate, and the Outstanding
Civilian Service award from the
United States Army.
A primary school in Nigeria
is named the ”Alden Rainbow”
following several of his visits to
Ohio faculty members teaching
Nigeria on USAID grants. Alden
frequently
receives
letters,
poems, cartoons and art work
from young Nigerian students.
President Lyndon Johnson
appointed Alden in 1964 as
Chairman of the Task Force
Planning and The United States
Job Corps and Chairman of the
Education Advisory Committee
of the Appalachian Commission.
Under Alden’s Leadership, Ohio
University spearheaded
the
economic
revitalization
of
Southeastern Ohio, including
development of the Appalachian
Highway
Network.
He
accomplished a major re-routing
of the Hocking River that had
annually flooded the Ohio
campus, and he built six
branches of the University in
eastern and southern Ohio.
President Johnson announced the
Great Society Program on the
Ohio campus.
As Associate Dean of the
Harvard Graduate School of
Business
Administration
between 1951 and 1961, he
taught advanced management
seminars in Japan and assisted in
the creation of Japan’s first
graduate school of business at
Keio University. He also
established the Institute for
College
and
University
Administrators, which conducted
case study seminars for college
presidents, deans and trustees.
An active corporate director,
Alden served for thirty-nine
years on the board of Digital
Equipment Corporation and for
more than twenty years each as a
Director of Colgate-Palmolive
Company, McGraw-Hill, The
Mead Corporation, The Boston
Company
and
Sonesta
International Hotels. During
World War II, Alden attended
the Navy Officers Japanese
Language School in Boulder
Colorado [OLS 4/30/45-], before
serving on the aircraft carrier
USS Saratoga. He is active on
several Japan related advisory
boards
and
foundations,
including the Policy Advisory
Committee of the Harvard
program on U.S. Japan relations.
In 1985 the Emperor of Japan
conferred upon him the Order of
the Rising Sun, Star Class.
Vernon Alden is well known
in Japan. For over forty years he
was President or Chairman of the
Japan Society of Boston. The
Japan Society of Boston was the
first to be established in the
United States. When he became
president in 1969, however, it
was no more than a small group
of
Bostonians
who
met
occasionally to discuss their
interest in Japan. He was able to
attract a five year grant from the
US-Japan
Friendship
Commission which provided an
opportunity to hire a full-time
Executive Director and to
increase membership and the
number of program offerings.
Soon membership increased to
more than 2000 with 150
additional corporate members.
Alden is a member of several
Japan-related advisory councils:
the Harvard Program on U.S. –
Japan
Relations,
the
Massachusetts-Hokkaido Sister
State Committee, and the
Newport-Shimoda Black Ships
Festival. He is also a Director of
the Boston-Kyoto Sister City
Foundation.
He served two terms as
Chairman of the National
Organization of Japan-American
Societies consisting of forty
state-wide organizations. When
he recruited a full-time president
of the Boston Japan Society, he
became chairman until 2009,
becoming Chairman Emeritus.
In 1972 Alden participated
with Japanese and American
business, academic, and political
leaders
in
the
JapaneseAmerican assembly held at
Shimoda. He was a member of
the late Ambassador Edwin
Reishaurer’s seminar at the East
Asian Studies Center, Harvard
University, and served on the
Advisory Board of the Japan-
United
States
Friendship
Commission.
In response to the invitation
of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Yohei Kono, who also
serves as chairman of the InterUniversity Athletic Council in
Japan, Alden has arranged for
several years to have runners
from Ivy League universities
participate in the national
championship Ekiden relay
races.
In 1978 Alden led a
Massachusetts trade delegation
which Ambassador Mansfield
described on ‘Meet the Press” as
“one of the most successful trade
delegations to visit Japan.” He
led delegations to Japan from
Rhode Island as well as the
National Association of JapanAmerica Societies. Alden has
traveled to Japan several times a
year since the mid -1950’s and
has
a
wide
range
of
acquaintances among Japanese
and United States business,
academic, and political leaders.
He and his late wife Marion,
were invited by the Imperial
Family to attend the wedding
reception of Crown Prince
Naruhito and Princess Masako.
In 1990 Alden was appointed
Honorary Consul General in
Boston for the Royal Kingdom
of Thailand. In 1996 His Majesty
the King of Thailand presented
him with The Most Noble Order
of the Crown of Thailand and in
1997 he was presented with the
Royal Decoration, Commander
(Third Class) of the Most
Exalted Order of the White
Elephant.. He has written three
books: Speaking for Myself, An
Oral History and Presidents,
Kings, Astronauts and Ball
players: Fascinating People I
have Known.
Alden with his late wife,
Marion is well known for his
philanthropy, having established
endowed funds at Brown
University,
the
Boston
Symphony Orchestra, the Boston
Science
Museum,
Ohio
University, Ohio
Wesleyan
University, MIT, the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy,
Northfield
Mount
Hermon
School, the Boston Public
Library, and the French Library
and Cultural Center in Boston, in
addition to annual gifts in
support
of
the
many
organizations with which he is
associated.
Vernon Alden was born in
Chicago, Illinois, in 1923. He
attend public schools in Moline,
Illinois and Providence, Rhode
Island, before attending Brown
University, from which he
graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He
received an MBA from the
Harvard
Business
School.
Thirteen
colleges
and
universities
have
conferred
honorary degrees upon him, and
in 1975 the Harvard Business
School Alumni Association gave
him its Business Statesman
Award. He received a similar
award form Brown University
alumni in 1987. Alden was
elected to Ohio University Hall
of Fame in 2006. The French
Library and Cultural Center
honored him as “Man of the
Year” in 1981.
Until he had hip replacement
surgery in 2003, Alden ran three
miles a day. He had running
routes wherever he traveled:
New York, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, London, Tokyo, and
even Bangkok. He established
the record for runners over 70 on
the hilly Chilmark, Martha’s
Vineyard, 5k road race which is
yet to be broken.
Alden is a member of the
Somerset Club, the Commercial
Club of Boston, The Country
Club, the Edgartown Yacht Club,
and the Farm Neck Golf Club on
Martha’s Vineyard.
He has four children, Robert,
Anne, James and David, as well
as three grandsons, William,
Anderson, and Thomas and five
granddaughters, Acadia, Lydia,
Mara, Lucy and Christelle.
© 2006–2007
Vernon Roger Alden
http://www.vernonalden.com/
________________
Forrest R. “Woody” Pitts
OLS 3/20/451924-2014
College and the Navy
Intertwined
“Upon my graduation from high
school in 1942, our family
moved to Sand Point, Idaho.
After a summer’s job as a
plumber’s assistant helping to
build the Farragut Naval
Training Base on Lake Pend
d’Oreille, I took my $950 in
wages and entered the University
of Idaho at Moscow. Only $50
remained by the end of the
spring semester. I enrolled in
geology
courses,
mostly
paleontology
and
geomorphology, but the scorn
poured on my head when I let it
be known that I believed in
Wegener’s “floating continents”
was enough to put me off
geology on my postwar return to
college.
During my freshman year,
where fifteen credits were the
norm, I took twenty one and got
good grades, even in remedial
algebra and Algebra I, which I
took concurrently. During this
time, I enlisted in the Navy,
where I later went through a
course in celestial navigation and
differential calculus. After a year
at Pocatello as an apprentice
seaman, I entered the Navy V-5
flight program at St. Olaf
College in Minnesota, only to be
transferred once again. The Navy
was losing fewer pilots than
anticipated, so all who wanted to
go to a midshipmen’s school
were released. I reached Throgs
Neck in the Bronx (where a
bridge now exists) for my
training. Toward the end of my
four months, a Commander
Hindmarsh visited, and I was
selected for the Lapanese
language school in Boulder
Colorado. He gave me the spiel,
‘With you, Pitts, we are reaching
the bottom of the barrel.’ I
learned only a few years ago that
that was what he told everyone
he recruited.
While I was at the Naval
Language School in Boulder, in
June 1945, I met a young lady at
a Friday evening picnic. I asked
Miss Jones to go with me to
Eliche’s Gardens in Denver the
next day, and at the end of that
day I proposed to her. She
wanted to think it over, and on
Sunday night she said yes. We
were married three months later,
in September, just after the war
ended. We had three daughters,
who live in Santa Rosa near us,
and a son whom we lost to
leukemia at the age of six
months. We celebrated our
fiftieth anniversary with a cruise
though the Panama Canal, a
long-time dream for Valerie.
Almost four years of navy
service gave me another year of
college, fifteen months of
Japanese-language
school,
considerable
experience
in
teaching gunnery to people more
warlike than myself, and several
months in Washington, DC,
document facility, which was
later incorporated into the CIA. I
left the Navy in November 1946
with a commendation in hand
from the admiral in charge of
Naval Intelligence. The GI Bill
had become available, and I
enrolled in Barnes School of
Commerce in Denver for a fwew
months to learn typing and
shorthand. Without the GI Bill,
which paid for my education, I
would have spent a life snaking
logs out of the forests of the
Grand Mesa.
Valerie and I then moved to
Berkeley for the 1947 summer
school. The visiting professor
that summer was Robert Burnett
Hall, who taught a course on
Japan and was a close friend of
Carl Sauer. When Professor Hall
learned of my language training,
he persuaded me to transfer to
the University of Michigan,
where they were just starting
their Center for Japanese
Studies. My third year in college
proved to be my senior year (I
had been given a year’s credit for
my language stint), and in 1948 I
entered the center at Michigan
for an M.A. in Far Eastern
Studies. In November 1997, I
was guest speaker at the fiftieth
anniversary colloquium for the
center, reading a paper called,
‘Japan: Twelve Doors to a Life.’
Life at the Ann Arbor campus
was interesting, especially for
the annual Easter-season arrival
of
disillusioned
graduate
students of Finch and Trewartha
in Madison, asking us if we had
room for them. Hearing we were
full up, they departed sadly to
careers in government.
My own career plans were not
fixed. After a semester and a half
studying Mandarin Chinese, I
went to the former Washington
Document center location and
asked to be given language tests
to join the CIA. On the Japanese
tests, I had no trouble, but on the
Chinese I scored seventy-two
points. For the lack of three
points, I was saved from a life at
the agency. I never made it to
China, nor did I become a China
watcher
in
Hong
Kong.
Returning to Ann Arbor to attend
field camp at Waugashaunce
Point, I then wrote my M.A.
thesis on a regional study of Mt.
Fuji, translating materials from
geological journals in Japanese.”
Forrest R. Pitts (Ph.D. Michigan,
1955), University of Hawaii,
Professor Emeritus, http://wwwpersonal.umich.edu/~copyrght/ima
ge/solstice/win00/reunion.html
Forrest R. Pitts,
“Sliding Sideways into Geography”,
in
Peter Gould and Forrest R. Pitts,
eds.,
Geographical Voices: Fourteen
Autobiographical Essays,
(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Press, 2002), pp. 274-276
[Ed Note: No obit yet, so I
substituted this. There is much more
in this article on his life. I had been
in contact with Woody for close to 14
years and was unprepared, having
exchanged emails in December 2013,
for his passing in January 2014. He
had been editing our newsletter for
almost 10 years (not willing, I think,
to abide the mistakes that got
through our process in The
Interpreter). I think he enjoyed the
preview of issues to come, affording,
him as it did, a way to comment on
many stories at a time. His stories
appeared in numerous issues of The
Interpreter: #62a, #63a, #97a, #135,
#148, #155, #159, #161, #165, #166,
#167, #171, #176, #186, and a few
others.]
________________
Heffner, Ray
OLS 5/14/45Dr. Heffner began his teaching
career at Indiana University in
1954 and held academic and
administrative positions there
and at the University of Iowa
before being hired at Brown in
1966 as the Ivy League
university’s 13th president.
He served three difficult years
in the job. The period coincided
with the Vietnam War and
violent protests on many
campuses. Brown was spared
such violence, but there were
protests and other debates about
the university’s future, according
to Encyclopedia Brunoniana, a
history of Brown.
Ruth Heffner described her
husband as a pacifist who
nevertheless thought students
should not be allowed to defer
military service if drafted
because the burden then fell to
those who were poor or black.
He also opposed a move by
the faculty to ban ROTC on
campus, arguing that it was
better to have military leaders
who are broadly educated at
high-quality
nonmilitary
institutions such as Brown,
Harvard and Princeton, she said.
“The faculty disagreed with
him, and because he did not have
the support of the faculty, he
resigned,” she said.
Brown still does not have an
ROTC program, although other
Ivy League schools have
reinstituted it.
Dr. Heffner resigned with a
straightforward message to the
school’s governing board: “I
have simply reached the
conclusion that I do not enjoy
being a university president.”
After
handing
in
his
resignation, Dr. Heffner returned
to the University of Iowa and
taught there until retiring in
1996.
For the past 16 years, he had
taught literature classes at the
Johnson County Senior Center in
Iowa City. He taught three to
four classes a year on topics
ranging from Shakespeare to the
literature of South Africa, Ruth
Heffner said.
Ray Lorenzo Heffner was
born in Durham, N.C., on May 7,
1925. Dr. Heffner’s father was
an English professor, and he
grew up near college campuses
in North Carolina, Maryland and
Washington.
The younger Heffner won a
scholarship to Yale University,
where he graduated in 1948. At
Yale, he also earned a Master’s
degree in 1950 and Ph.D. in
English in 1953, specializing in
Elizabethan literature.
He served in the Navy during
World War II, serving time as a
dynamite man on a construction
crew in the Pacific. [Mr. Heffner
attended USN OLS in Japanese
in 1945.]
Associated Press
Michelle R. Smith
Washington Post
December 3, 2012
________________
Ernest Dale Saunders
OLS 1945
(1919-1995)
Dr. E. Dale Saunders, an
emeritus professor of Japanese
studies who was widely known
for his writing and teaching, died
on October 19, 1995 at the age of
76.
Dr. Saunders, who joined
Penn in 1955 as assistant
professor, became associate
professor in 1963 and full
professor in 1968. Teaching
courses on Japanese Buddhism,
Classical Japanese Literature,
and East Asian Civilization, he
was the author of Mudra: A
Study of Symbolic Gestures in
Japanese Buddhist Sculpture
(1960), Mythologies of the
Ancient World (1961), and
Japanese Buddhism (1964).
After taking his A.B. degree
from
Western
Reserve
University in 1941 and an M.A.
in Romance Philology from
Harvard in 1942, Dr. Saunders
entered the U.S. Naval Reserve,
where he continued his studies of
Japanese. He earned a Certificate
of Proficiency from Colorado in
1944, an M.A. from Harvard in
1948, and the Doctorat de
l'Universite de Paris in 1953.
Dr. Saunders was a teaching
fellow in Romance Languages
and Literature at Harvard in
1942 and again in 1945-48. Prior
to joining Penn he also held the
positions of instructor in French
at Boston University in 1946;
Charge de mission ˆ titre
etranger, Musee Guimet, in Paris
in 1950; Lecturer at the
University of Paris in 1951-52;
and Assistant Professor at the
International
Christian
University, Tokyo, 1954-55.
Almanac
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, October 31, 1995
Volume 42, Number 10
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